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[Question ] Seeing TTY2 screen from SSH

Hi everyone,

I am a newbie. Installed FedoraC6 and using it. I was wonder how do I see the output from TTY2 from a SSH session. Normally I ALT-F2 to get to it. Also I remember seeing a command which allow an application to be separated from the screen and able to call it back from command line. I need to do it all under ssh command line.

You can't, when you connect through ssh, you create one single display connection, usualy a pts/N connection, through which you can't pipe output from the terminal.
What you see on your screen is a display connection on the local machine, this is called through a vtN connection, this is created through getty, which is also responsible of creating TTYN, so here it is possible to pipe the output from another TTY to your current TTY.

Also I remember seeing a command which allow an application to be separated from the screen and able to call it back from command line.